My Huffington Post Essay: “5 Truths About Creativity That I Learned From an 87-Year-Old Cloistered Nun & Artist”

“As a 31-year-old artist and writer, I met 87-year-old cloistered nun and ceramics artist Sister Augustine. At the time, I was stuck at a crucial crossroads in my life, and a stalemate in my career. Meanwhile, Sister Augustine had been long forgotten by the world as she quietly worked six days a week in the studio and shop she had founded in the 1960s on the grounds of the oldest Benedictine convent in the country.

As I recount in my memoir Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life’s Greatest Questions, the next five years were the joyride of a lifetime for us — artist to artist.

During our hundreds of weekly visits, Sister Augustine not only showed me the blueprint for living a life grounded in purpose and hope, she also revealed five very important truths about creativity that anyone anywhere can use.”

To read the full essay, please click HERE.